Receptacle-cover.



D. A. RIPLEY.

. RECEPTACLE COVER. APPLICATION FILED MAR.21.1914.

1,146,816 Patented July 20, 1915 FIGJ.

Fl GU31 WITNESSES DANIEL A. RIPLE Y, OF CONNELLSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

RECEPTACLE-COVER.

Specification of Let ers Fatent.

Patented Jul Application filed March 21, 1914. Serial No. 826,191.

To (ZZZ whom may COWGGTTL Be it known that I, DANIEL A. RIPLEY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Connellsville, in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Re ceptacle-Covers, of which the following is a specification.

It has become a common practice with dispensers of pickles, preserves and other food products purchased in barrels to arrange the latter in front of a counter or at some other convenient place in the store where the contents may be viewed by customers, the barrel being closed by a transparent glass cap-like cover. In many instances the commodities are dispensed from crock-like receptacles suspended in the open ends of the barrels, the supply therein being replenished from time to time from the barrel, thereby maintaining the commodity in full view even though the barrel may be nearly or entirely empty. These removable receptacles are usually formed of enameled ware or vitreous material, and together with the removable glass covers provide an attractive and sanitary display. Each outfit ordinarily consists of a range of two or more barrels, one for each commodity or variety dealt in, and when a sale is made the cover of that particular barrel. is lifted off, and the most convenient and natural place to rest it is on top of the cover of an adjacent barrel. But as these covers are provided with upwardly projecting knobs, they do not present an even supporting surface with the result that when another cover is rested thereon it is liable to slide off and be broken, the covers being commonly formed of glass and hence comparatively heavy. The described mode of displaying and dis pensing commodities has become so general that the glass covers are manufactured and sold in large numbers, this notwithstanding the considerable breakage heretofore expe rienced due to temporarily removed covers sliding from position on adjacent barrels and falling to the floor.

The object of the present invention is to so construct the covers, without detracting from their transparency and in fact without materially changing the design of the cover in its simplest form, that each cover will securely hold another cover temporarily rested thereon, thereby precluding the sliding displacement and breakage referred to.

Each cover is provided with a lifting knob, and the purpose of the invention is carried out by providing the under side of the cover with a socket-like depression which is complementary with the knob ape of every other cover, thereby providing a nesting or interlocking connection for any removed cover with the cover of an adjacent barrel upon which it may be tenngorarily rested.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a range of barrels for displaying and dispensing food products, each provided with a cover em bodying the invention, one of the barrels being shown open with the removed, cover placed on top of the cover of an adjacent barrel. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of two of the covers in nesting or interlocking relation. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of one of the covers.

Illustrative of the store practice herein referred to, A, B and C represent three barrels arranged side by side in front of a counter D in full view of customers. In many instances a larger number of barrelssix or moreare thus displayed. Removably fitting within the open top of each barrel is a crock-like receptacle E for maintaining a portion of the barrel contents in full view at all times even though the barrel may be nearly or quite empty, the supply in crock E being replenished from the barrel from time to time, as will be understood.

The cap-like cover F for each barrel is commonly formed of glass and is trans parent so that the contents of crock E, or of the barrel if a crock is not used, maybe observed, at the same time excluding dust, dirt, etc, from the barrel. When access is to be had to a barrel, the most convenient and natural place to temporarily rest the removed cover is on an adjacent barrel, as illustrated in Fig. 1. But as the covers are ordinarily formed of smooth glass and as each is provided with a central projecting knob Gr, there is danger of the removed cover sliding off and falling to the floor. In practice much breakage has resulted from this cause. To obviate the same, the under surface of each cover is provided with a socket-like depression H which is formed complementary with the spindle-like extremity or apeX G of knob Cr, so that the knob of a cover properly positioned on a barrel provides a secure support for any other cover temporarily rested thereon, as at the lefthand side of Fig. l, the socket of the removed cover fitting over the apex Gr of the supporting cover, as in Fig. 2, and

thereby securely. sustained. With the central interfitting knobs and depressions arranged as shown, the relatively heavy cover is sustained in a balanced position, as shown in Fig. 2, and with the sockets and knob projections smooth, as in the adaptation here shown, the sustained cover may spin or rotate on the supporting cover without danger of being displaced. The cooperating parts of the supporting and supported covers are of such form and are so located as not to encroach upon the considerable expanse of transparent cover area, and hence do not interfere with the display of the barrel contents. When formed of glass, as in the present adaptation, the base of the knob is thickened or enlarged at J to provide for the formation of depression H Without Weakening the cover.

I claim:

A removable receptacle cover adapted to additionally act as a support for or be supported by a cover of similar configuration, said cover having its under surface formed with an approximately conical socket-like depression substantially central of and de- DANIEL A. RIFLE Y.

l/Vitnesses I. F. VANNATTA,

l/V. P. CLARK.

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Washington, D. C. 

